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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, in their true forms, look like person-shaped blobs of shining light. More often, though, mirror shades are encountered on reflective surfaces such as mirrors or panes of glass. There, they blend in
Mirror Shade Medium Undead, Typically Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 91 (14d8 + 28)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
8 (−1)
DEX
17 (+3)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
in more details about your class later. Choosing your class is the most important decision you make in creating a character, and it informs many of the decisions you make in later steps. You’ll return to your class’s description in “Character Classes” several more times before you’re done.
Step 1: Choose a Class Choose a class, and write it on your character sheet. The Class Overview table summarizes the classes. See “Character Classes” for the classes’ details. Class Overview Class
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
details about your class later. Choosing your class is the most important decision you make in creating a character, and it informs many of the decisions you make in later steps. You’ll return to your class’s description in chapter 3 several more times before you’re done.
Step 1: Choose a Class Choose a class, and write it on your character sheet. The Class Overview table summarizes the classes. See chapter 3 for the classes’ details. Class Overview Class Likes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
serving a dragonmarked house. Artificer. You have the option of choosing the artificer as your character’s class, becoming an unmatched magical inventor. Group Patron. Working with the other players
in your group, decide which of the great powers in the world backs your group. This decision can shape your entire campaign.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
How and When to Use the Tables If you’re comfortable with letting the dice decide a certain fact about your character, go ahead and roll. If not, you can take charge and make the decision, choosing
character’s race — but you could also wait until later in the process. You might prefer to establish more facts about your character’s game identity — such as your class, ability scores, and alignment — before supplementing that information with what’s offered here.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
so, since it is never clear the extent of Tiamat’s influence over the creatures. There are five kinds of abishai, each one reflective of one of Tiamat’s dragon heads (black, blue, green, red, and
white). White abishais are the weakest. They fight with reckless fury on the battlefield. White Abishai
Medium fiend (devil), lawful evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 68 (8d8 + 32
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
imaginary.
—Mordenkainen
Skulk
Medium Monstrosity, Typically Chaotic Neutral
Armor Class 14
Hit Points 18 (4d8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
6 (−2)
DEX
19 (+4)
CON
10 (+0
through this invisibility.
Reflective Surfaces. The skulk appears as a drab, smooth-skinned biped if its reflection can be seen in a mirror or on another surface.
Trackless. The skulk leaves no tracks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
, skills, and save DC (see “Proficiency Bonus”). Their other statistics typically remain the same regardless of their level. Armor Class Unlike player characters, a retainer’s armor class isn’t
determined by a particular set of armor they don (like studded leather). Instead, each retainer’s armor class is simplified to one of three armor types: Retainers with light armor have AC 13. Retainers with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
adventurer to complete a task. In those cases, the DM might ask the player to roll a die to help determine what happens. Describing the results often leads to another decision point, which brings the
.
The game also includes elements—class features, feats, weapon properties, spells, magic items, monster abilities, and the like—that sometimes contradict a general rule. When an exception and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
adventurer to complete a task. In those cases, the DM might ask the player to roll a die to help determine what happens. Describing the results often leads to another decision point, which brings the
.
The game also includes elements—class features, feats, weapon properties, spells, magic items, monster abilities, and the like—that sometimes contradict a general rule. When an exception and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
surely as any living mortal. As a result, a medusa destroys or removes any mirrors or reflective surfaces in its lair. Medusa
Medium monstrosity, lawful evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
provoked. He wields the greatsword Angdrelve, also called Wave of Sorrow, whose wavy, razor-edged blade drips acid at his command. Graz’zt
Large Fiend (Demon), Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 20 (natural
command to all the targets. Conjure Mirrors. Smooth surfaces within the lair become as reflective as a polished mirror. Until a different lair action is used, creatures within the lair have disadvantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
office. Vajra isn’t the city’s most powerful wizard, but she can hold her own. Despite her many gifts, she still questions her ability to meet the demands of her role, and she rarely makes a decision
not to challenge her. Only the Open Lord, currently Laeral Silverhand, can strip Vajra of her title. Vajra Safahr
Medium humanoid (human), lawful neutral
Armor Class 14 (Blackstaff; 17 with mage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
are the most common character types in the Harpers, but characters of every class can be found in the organization. Remallia Haventree Chaotic good female moon elf fighter Ideals: Freedom, respect
to commit to fighting the Cult of the Dragon. She understands their hesitation, however. The Harpers’ have only recently been reformed, and the cause of their near-destruction was the decision to act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
are the most common character types in the Harpers, but characters of every class can be found in the organization. Remallia Haventree Chaotic good female moon elf fighter Ideals: Freedom, respect
to commit to fighting the Cult of the Dragon. She understands their hesitation, however. The Harpers’ have only recently been reformed, and the cause of their near-destruction was the decision to act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
are the most common character types in the Harpers, but characters of every class can be found in the organization. Remallia Haventree Chaotic good female moon elf fighter Ideals: Freedom, respect
to commit to fighting the Cult of the Dragon. She understands their hesitation, however. The Harpers’ have only recently been reformed, and the cause of their near-destruction was the decision to act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Tarrasque Tarrasque
Gargantuan monstrosity (titan), unaligned
Armor Class 25 (natural armor)
Hit Points 676 (33d20 + 330)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
30(+10)
DEX
11(+0)
CON
30(+10
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The tarrasque has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Reflective Carapace. Any time the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
to be used as scrying sensors, their reflective surfaces substituting for the mirror needed to cast certain divination spells. While being used in this way, the fractine siphons magical energy from the
Construct, Typically Neutral
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 110 (13d10 + 39)
Speed 0 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover)
STR
1 (−5)
DEX
13 (+1)
CON
16 (+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
they mention Dae Won-Ha, he’s surprised and grows reflective. He shares his memories only if the characters present him with the lantern from Dae Won-Ha’s forgotten memorial or her teacup, or if a
, Queen Young-Soo. He did this not out of malice, but out of devotion to his family and the crown, believing any individual who the people place above the ruling class must be treated as a threat. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
the depths to obliterate everything in its path. Tarrasque
Gargantuan monstrosity (titan), unaligned
Armor Class 25 (natural armor)
Hit Points 676 (33d20 + 330)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
30 (+10
effects.
Reflective Carapace. Any time the tarrasque is targeted by a magic missile spell, a line spell, or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll a d6. On a 1 to 5, the tarrasque is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, and sometimes they regather and combine into a new troll amalgam. Troll Amalgam Gargantuan Giant, Typically Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 217 (14d20 + 70)
Speed 60 ft
, stretchable bodies, resistance to magic, and a strange reflective psychic property. Many troll mutates also have small additional limbs and eyes, externalized organs, and other variations. Troll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Supersede General Rules. General rules govern each part of the game, but the game also includes class features, spells, magic items, monster abilities, and other elements that can contradict a general
what’s happening in the language of the game. See the “Narration in Combat” section in chapter 2 for more advice and examples. Describing results often leads to another decision point, which returns the flow of the game to step 1.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rules. General rules govern each part of the game, but the game also includes class features, spells, magic items, monster abilities, and other elements that can contradict a general rule. When an
the language of the game. Describing results often leads to another decision point, which returns the flow of the game to step 1.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
a group’s devastating defeat or when an individual contemplates some momentous decision. The undead seeks to corrupt vulnerable individuals, especially those of lawful or good alignments, by setting
discerning—and brazen—collectors. Eye of Fear and Flame
Medium undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 136 (16d8 + 64)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
14 (+2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
by a hero’s desperate prayer, a cleric’s use of the Divine Intervention class feature, or a god’s decision to intervene in mortal affairs for good or ill, an answer can manifest in a variety of ways
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
decision, follow through with it knowing your path is just. Redemption. So you feel bad about having done something, and then you have to do something to feel better? Why don’t you just kill and eat
the Guardian (30 ft.) 20th Emissary of Redemption Oath Spells You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed in the Oath of Redemption Spells table. See the Sacred Oath class feature for how oath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, often relying on the roll of a die to determine the results of an action.
3. The DM narrates the results of the adventurers’ actions. Describing the results often leads to another decision point
chapter 1 for details on each ability and how to determine an ability’s modifier.)
2. Apply circumstantial bonuses and penalties. A class feature, a spell, a particular circumstance, or some other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
must face the awful decision of whether the child should be punished or exiled. Tribe Mother. Much in the way that they befriend children in order to corrupt them, annis hags have a tendency for
evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 75 (10d10 + 20)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
21(+5)
DEX
12(+1)
CON
14(+2)
INT
13(+1)
WIS
14(+2)
CHA
15(+2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
renowned as the center of philosophical thought. They form a privileged class, often coming from wealthy families but also supported by stipends from the polis’s academies and their own students
music. Anapsians have few strong opinions about governance, except that an ultimate good end should be kept front of mind in all decision. Thaumaturges Meletians view magic as one of the greatest art
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
against a disastrous financial decision. That person then helps the character in gratitude.
Oddlewin Small Fey (Goblinoid), Chaotic Neutral
Armor Class 13 (leather armor)
Hit Points 21 (6d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
lost all their coin and sold their titles again within a season or two. Open Lord Laeral Silverhand has, to the relief of those leaders, seen the folly of this decision, and gathered enough support
class of people to any specific ward.
Castle Ward. As the name indicates, Castle Ward contains Castle Waterdeep, Piergeiron’s Palace, and many other public buildings of the city. This ward is home to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
monster’s stat block. Familiarize yourself with that material before you begin. In the course of creating your monster, if you find yourself unable to make a decision, let the examples in the Monster
use the proficiency bonus in later steps, so jot it down now or remember it. Step 7. Armor Class A monster’s Armor Class has a direct bearing on its challenge rating, and vice versa. You can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
house adjoining her family’s estate. The Rillyn School is about to graduate its first class of students, all of whom have trained with Yvandre for at least five years and have won her approval with their
will as they do, behold a vision to inspire their next creation. The reflective period can be dawn to dusk, midnight to midday, or any other period. As the Unrolling Scroll stands in the Upper City
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
-wielding school in a guest house adjoining her family’s estate. The Rillyn School is about to graduate its first class of students, all of whom have trained with Yvandre for at least five years and have
as they do, behold a vision to inspire their next creation. The reflective period can be dawn to dusk, midnight to midday, or any other period. As the Unrolling Scroll stands in the Upper City, though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
involves several decisions, including where to move and what action to take. If you could delay your turn, your decision-making would possibly become slower, since you would have to consider whether you
spellcasting ability is determined by your class or whatever feature gave you the ability to make the spell attack. For example, if you make a melee weapon attack with a longsword, you add your Strength